diff --git a/recipes/components/gke-nccl-tcpxo/manifests/nccl-tcpxo-installer.yaml b/recipes/components/gke-nccl-tcpxo/manifests/nccl-tcpxo-installer.yaml
index 3d922ccf9..4d763c2af 100644
--- a/recipes/components/gke-nccl-tcpxo/manifests/nccl-tcpxo-installer.yaml
+++ b/recipes/components/gke-nccl-tcpxo/manifests/nccl-tcpxo-installer.yaml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ spec:
       initContainers:
         # ubuntu:24.04 LTS digest-pinned for reproducibility. Bump the tag
         # and digest together when refreshing.
-        - image: "ubuntu:26.04@sha256:678c6550cc43645e08669028bc177f50be4e7c5b8cca677067b1914d4afc7a03"
+        - image: "ubuntu:26.04@sha256:6df9e8dd1eac389ebfef692c9648449adeb815d01e16e29cd6f3e50fe64ba9a6"
           name: pre-installation
           securityContext:
             privileged: true